Lussumo Filebrowser – Now with awesome thumbnailing power A highly optimized filebrowser in PHP that allows simple thumbnailing and viewing of photographs. The DEMO is quite refreshing and it validates XHTML 1.1 Transitional! Though I would suggest better use of HTML lists, this product looks to be truly amazing. Also from Lussomo is Vanilla which is a web forum that Matt mentioned in his recent podcast interview. Filebrowser is SCREAMING to be integerated into WordPress as a simple, in-post gallery creator that does not break validation. Imagine posts as albums and post categories as album categories. You can even add a random thumbnail from a post as a teaser in the excerpt.

Anobe: Another online photo app I developed an application almost exactly like this for my day job. This online photo album has a lot of potential but the developers need serious help with the user interfaces and the interaction experience. It uses JUpload to support drag and drop of photos into the browser. Whats up with the small and confusing icons?

Oberkampf – Flickr Gallery: Create a complete and highly customized gallery using photographs and thumbnails from Flickr with your own php code and simple functions from Oberkampf. Some of the examples look delicious! Thanks Carthik

Album Journal: I have been working with photo blogging, photo albums and online photo repositories for sometime and I had thought that Flickr was the closest thing to a perfect photo app. I might have been wrong. After looking through this “Album Journal” I think this would be cool. I like the interface and the organization of the albums. I really like the idea of being able to record entries per photo and per album and then display them as such. Not everyone has a bunch of pictures to post in an album everyday but when you do, it would be of tremendous aesthetic value to be able to annotate each one with a blog post of sorts. I know that all of this is achievable with Gallery, Flickr and the like but somehow they all lack the fluidity and the coherence of the album journal above. I would like […]

Instructions to build a WP Photoblog: Step by step instructions on what this innovative WordPress user did to build their own “Cam Diary” and it sounds much like Pictorialis I. This is exactly why I believe in documentation and good readme’s. I hope a few other people can use this experience.

Picaweb Picaweb is a php application to help you to easily put pictures galeries on the web with the help of Picasa 2 to generate the pictures and thumbnails. Picasa2 has an xml web gallery export option. Picaweb will parse this xml and render the html pages on the fly (with Smarty http://smarty.php.net). Dynamic Web albums on the fly from picasa 2? Thanks Forever Geek

PixelPost Small Photoblog: A PHP Mysql photoblogging tool, the screenshots of which are strangely reminiscent of Pictorialis I with a cooler template for the display of the blog. I personally like the Pictorialis admin interface much better. Thanks LifeHacker

Simple PHP Gallery: A very simple PHP gallery system that requires GD. Caching, simple upload to folders and a relatively simple install make this one to watch. I see a lot of similarities between this and something I have developed professionally. Could be easily integerated with a WordPress install. [EDIT]: Special version of Simple PHP Gallery that is pre-configured to pull the gallery into a WordPress template.

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Mark Ghosh

An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.